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Strengthening mutual accountability in partnerships for WASH. Pt 2: Summary of six country case studies

More emphasis is needed on building and strengthening the work of multi-stakeholder platforms in WASH at the national level.
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Replication guideline to SEHATI programme approach (Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for Eastern Indonesia) : an approach to expand the implementation coverage of the 5 pillars of STBM

This book showcases an approach to expand the implementation coverage of the 5 pillars of Community-Based Total Sanitation.
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Ladies monitoring sanitation in Indonesian village

Where there is a will, there is a way

Published on: 11/11/2019
On World Toilet Day, I am sharing a positive story to inspire everyone.

Speakers Panel at the WASH Debate on Dialogue and Dissent, The Hague, 26 June 2019

Bringing empowered voices to the table

Published on: 15/07/2019
The role of civil society in evidence-based advocacy for the human rights to water and sanitation. Report of a WASH Debate.

African women with water buckets on their heads. Photo: Simavi

Dutch consortium awarded €59 million grant in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Published on: 06/07/2017
IRC leads the cross-country learning and knowledge component.

African women fetching water

Nederlands Consortium krijgt €59 miljoen toegekend voor behalen Duurzame Ontwikkelingsdoelen in 7 landen

Published on: 06/07/2017
IRC leidt de kenniscomponent en het leren tussen landen.

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Phase out strategies in the WASH sector

Published on: 04/04/2017
Max Foundation and IRC invite you to discuss sustainability and domestic resource mobilisation when aid ends.

Report on the SEHATI programme coordinators meeting

The purpose of this report is to give an impression of the proceedings and discussions that took place during the first SEHATI Programme Coordinators...
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Report on the SEHATI programme kick-off meeting

This report provides a synthesis and summary of the Organisational Capacity Needs Assessment (OCNA) workshop held in Vientiane, Lao PDR, December...
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Handwashing

Empowering local government to provide sustainable sanitation and hygiene

Published on: 31/08/2016
The dream of replicating and scaling up a new sanitation and hygiene delivery model throughout Indonesia.

Hai Phong municipal pit emptying services

Shit in the city

Published on: 23/06/2016
Can mapping faecal sludge flows secure a city's future? Article in The Guardian.

City of Matarm on Lombok from the air

Plotting urban shit volumes and practices: put your money where your shit is

Published on: 24/03/2016
Testing a simple tool to assess faecal waste flows in a real life situation can be a lot of fun. The results though can at best be described as enlightening and at worst as shocking.

Talking toilet

Accessibility of toilets by people with a disability: if only toilets could talk…

Published on: 21/03/2016
A group of gifted local performers with different disabilities made us realise that going to the toilet is not as easy for everyone as you might think.

Entrance to the district administration of Basedth district, Cambodia

Transferring WASH mandates to the lower levels: developing soft skills without hard cash

Published on: 17/03/2016
On the third day of the regional learning event we reflected on the field visits and discussed what we learned.

Simple direct pit latrine in Cambodia

Toilets and bathtubs: basic sanitation facilities?

Published on: 17/03/2016
During a field visit we observed some seriously big and fancy toilets in a rural village.

Official opening of the learning event by the Secretary of State of the Ministry of Rural Development in Cambodia

Thinking beyond the finish line: sustainable sanitation services for all

Published on: 14/03/2016
Today we were told that the Siem Reap (or Angkor Wat) half marathon has a clear finish line, but that it is unlikely that anyone of us will reach that mile stone.

Capacity self-assessment workshop in Indonesia

Great programmes need great organisations behind them

Published on: 26/11/2015
For the WASH sector as a whole to achieve greater impact, more organisations must address their gaps in organisational capacity and will need to embrace capacity development holistically and more systematically.

Spreading the sanitation message in Indonesia

Can success be scaled?

Published on: 26/11/2015
Implementing a highly successful rural sanitation and hygiene programme in East Indonesia has taught us some important lessons. The most relevant being that approaches designed and applied to implement a successful programme are not necessarily scalable. We learned that to be able to work at scale...

Meeting at Planning Department Aceh Province, Indonesia

On Septic Tanks and Postponed Open Defecation

Published on: 03/09/2014
This second blogpost of three on urban sanitation in Indonesia describes the mismatch between policy and practice. Politicians have set the ambitious target to make Indonesia open defecation free by 2019, but a recent visit to Indonesian municipalities makes me wonder whether striving for the end...

Indonesian sewer

The Indonesia Urban Sanitation Development Program: A Brief Description and Observations from the Field

Published on: 02/09/2014
I've just come back from a brief trip to Indonesia to learn from the Urban Sanitation Development Program (USDP), arguably one of the most interesting programs out there for those interested in large-scale change in urban sanitation. In a series of three blogposts, I will discuss this program, its...

Improving performance of WASH actors: Capacity Self-Assessments of SHAW partner NGOs

This paper describes IRC's experience and lessons learned in conducting Capacity Self-Assessment (CSA) workshops as part of the SHAW programme in...
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Local NGO engaged in CSA process

Capacity Self Assessments help organisations achieve their goals

Published on: 20/08/2014
Improving the performance of the WASH sector to achieve services for life requires change within organisations and sector institutions. Such change cannot be achieved with standardised one-off training for individual staff. A short paper describes our experience in Indonesia with Capacity Self-...

Improving performance of WASH actors : capacity self-assessments of SHAW partner NGOs

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Nepal hygiene training for kids

IRC's work in Asia

Published on: 18/03/2014
Great inequalities in water and sanitation service provision persist in the region. We work in partnership to accelerate the drive towards universal and sustainable access to sanitation, hygiene and water services.

Review of existing monitoring systems and practices

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